Seeking Openlisp tutorial/info?

From: Bruce Nagel
Subject: Seeking Openlisp tutorial/info?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 01:05:33 +0000
Message-ID: <slrnbst22n.ape.nagelbh@sdf.lonestar.org>

Having happened upon Openlisp available (the only Lisp available, that is) on
freeshell.org, I'm trying to find a tutorial, or at least a document describing
the differences between ISLISP and CL.  Also of interest is info on the TISL
ISLISP implementation.  I haven't turned up much via google. :-(

Bruce

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Re: Seeking Openlisp tutorial/info? Jan Rychter
Re: Seeking Openlisp tutorial/info? Paolo Amoroso

From: Jan Rychter
Subject: Re: Seeking Openlisp tutorial/info?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:39:58 +0000
Message-ID: <m2iskwvs41.fsf@tnuctip.rychter.com>

>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Nagel <·······@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
 Bruce> Having happened upon Openlisp available (the only Lisp
 Bruce> available, that is) on freeshell.org, I'm trying to find a
 Bruce> tutorial, or at least a document describing the differences
 Bruce> between ISLISP and CL.  Also of interest is info on the TISL
 Bruce> ISLISP implementation.  I haven't turned up much via google. :-(

ISLISP is much smaller than CL and intended (as I understand it) for
different kinds of applications than CL. Think small/embedded
implementations.

From what I've seen, ISLISP looks nice and is reasonably well
designed. It also provides a nice migration path to CL -- if you start
by learning ISLISP, you will progress to CL rather smoothly.

The two important things I have found missing in ISLISP are hash tables
(almost trivial with an external library) and packages (decidedly
non-trivial).

You should probably forget about TISL if you're looking for a usable
implementation of ISLISP. I have tried it and it is very much a work in
progress, with no progress visible recently. I'm still looking into the
possibility of creating another implementation.

--J.

From: Paolo Amoroso
Subject: Re: Seeking Openlisp tutorial/info?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 19:55:54 +0000
Message-ID: <87he0gz7at.fsf@plato.moon.paoloamoroso.it>

Bruce Nagel <·······@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:

> Having happened upon Openlisp available (the only Lisp available, that is) on
> freeshell.org, I'm trying to find a tutorial, or at least a document describing
> the differences between ISLISP and CL.  Also of interest is info on the TISL

See:

  http://islisp.info


Paolo
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